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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Sketch of the Life, Personal Appearance, Character, and Manners, of Charles S. Stratton written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Sketch of the Life, Personal Appearance, Character, & Manners of Charles S. Stratton written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketch of the life, personal appearance, character, & manners of Charles S. Stratton : the man in miniature known as General Tom Thumb and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the huistory courtshi and marriage with some account remarkable dwarves, giants and other human phenomena of ancient and modern times also songs given at their public levees.
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
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Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Sherwood STRATTON
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Sketch of the Life ... of C. S. S., ... Known as General T. Thumb, Etc written by Charles Sherwood STRATTON and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Woolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313292X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Wonders written by John Woolf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real stories—human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage—of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. Through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of show business, of celebrity, of advertising, and of “alternative facts” while also exploring the tensions between the power of fame, the impact of exploitation, and our fascination with “otherness.”
Author : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher : Boston : The Trustees
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Vallone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228864
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Big and Small written by Lynne Vallone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference--particularly unusual bodies, big and small--as an overlooked yet crucial marker that informs human identity and culture. Exploring miniaturism, giganticism, obesity, and the lived experiences of actual big and small people, Vallone boldly addresses the uncomfortable implications of using physical measures to judge normalcy, goodness, gender identity, and beauty. This wide-ranging work surveys the lives and contexts of both real and imagined persons with extraordinary bodies from the seventeenth century to the present day through close examinations of art, literature, folklore, and cultural practices, as well as scientific and pseudo-scientific discourses. Generously illustrated and written in a lively and accessible style, Vallone's provocative study encourages readers to look with care at extraordinary bodies and the cultures that created, depicted, loved, and dominated them.
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Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573329
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Becoming Tom Thumb written by Eric D. Lehman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “evocative and entertaining” biography of the nineteenth century circus performer who became a global phenomenon (Neil Harris, author of Humbug). When P. T. Barnum met twenty-five-inch-tall Charles Stratton at a Bridgeport, Connecticut hotel in 1843, one of the most important partnerships in entertainment history was born. With Barnum’s promotional skills and the miniature Stratton’s comedic talents, they charmed a Who’s Who of the nineteenth century, from Queen Victoria to Charles Dickens to Abraham Lincoln. Adored worldwide as “General Tom Thumb,” Stratton played to sold-out shows for almost forty years. From his days as a precocious child star to his tragic early death, Becoming Tom Thumb tells the full story of this iconic figure for the first time. It details his triumphs on the New York stage, his epic celebrity wedding, and his around-the-world tour, drawing on newly available primary sources and interviews. From the mansions of Paris to the deserts of Australia, Stratton’s unique brand of Yankee comedy not only earned him the accolades of millions of fans, it helped move little people out of the side show and into the limelight.
Author : Tom Thumb
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Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Sketch of the Life written by Tom Thumb and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0912777532
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)
Download or read book The Big, Bold, Adventurous Life of Lavinia Warren written by Elizabeth Raum and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavinia Warren never let her height—or the lack of it—prevent her from leading a full and adventurous life. Although she never grew more than three feet tall, she became a beloved teacher, a world traveler, an entertainer and the friend of many powerful figures. Lavinia was teaching at a local school when she heard about an opportunity to travel doing shows as a "human curiosity" on a Mississippi River boat. Eventually she met P. T. Barnum and worked at his American Museum. It was there that she met Charles Stratton, known to the world as "Tom Thumb." Their wedding, which took place on February 10, 1863, brought joy to a nation at war. President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln held a reception for the couple at the White House. During her long life, Lavinia faced several tragedies but always found the strength to go on. Her extraordinary story also provides a unique perspective on one of the most devastating periods in American history: the Civil War and its aftermath. This valuable middle-grade biography includes material on Tom Thumb Weddings, readers' questions, a time line, and other resources.
Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743236726
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Far From the Tree written by Andrew Solomon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of people affected by physical, developmental or cultural factors that divide families. 150,000 first printing.
Author : Robert M. Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887488
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book From Traveling Show to Vaudeville written by Robert M. Lewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252030543
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader reveals the trailblazing American showman as, by turns, a moral reformer, a habitual hoaxer, an insightful critic, a savvy "puffer," a master of images, a sparkling writer, a relentless provocateur, and an early advocate of "family" entertainments. Taken together, these selections paint a new and more complete portrait of this complex man than has ever been seen before. James W. Cook's The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader includes large excerpts from Barnum's semi-autobiographical novel The Adventures of an Adventurer (1841), his European letters from 1844-46 informing readers of the New York Atlas of his reception by royalty overseas, selections from his Ancient and Modern Humbugs of the World (Barnum's 1864-65 insider's look into nineteenth-century frauds), and much, much more. The book also features vintage photographs and reproductions of difficult-to-find images from Barnum's two-decade collaboration with the prominent New York lithographers Currier and Ives. Collectively, these materials help us to track the shifting personas of the great showman, his promotional choices, and his publics across the nineteenth century. Book jacket.
Author : Blanche Lee (de Triqueti) Childe
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Download or read book Sketch of the Life, Personal Appearance, Character and Manners of Charles S. Stratton, the Man in Miniature, Known as General Tom Thumb, and His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton written by Blanche Lee (de Triqueti) Childe and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aimee Medeiros
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319107
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Heightened Expectations written by Aimee Medeiros and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes research using the UCLA Library Baby Books Collection.
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